How Managing Partners Spend Their Time [PRO Member Exclusive]

By Marc Rosenberg
Author of “CPA Firm Management and Governance.”

Managing the firm, rainmaking, client management. All vie for the managing partner’s time.

Marc Rosenberg
Marc Rosenberg

Statistics from The Rosenberg Practice Management Survey show:

Firm Size Annual Billable Hours % MP to All
Managing Partner All Equity Partners
Over $20M 632 1,079 59%
$10-20M 736 1,090 67%
$2-10M 959 1,117 85%

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Armed with the above, my experience with firms would indicate that the managing partner’s time is spent as follows: READ MORE →

Getting Published: A Checklist

Step by Step.

Note: In this dialog, Ed creates a checklist of the steps necessary to writing an article and getting it published.

Question: I would like to write an article and have it published. Can you assist me writing an article for an industry trade journal?

Response: Before we start, a few questions and comments.

  1. Have you ever been published?  If so, what were titles of your last two articles and when and where were they published?
  2. If you haven’t been published, your focus should be a smaller publication with a shorter article.
  3. If you want to have an article in the magazine, you will need to review the last few issues to  see the type and style of articles they publish and send me a listing of three topics appropriate for the journal with a short description of what you will cover in the each article and the reasons why their subscribers will want to read it.

Question: Thank you for taking the time to assist me, I have not written any articles yet. Here are three ideas I thought of: READ MORE →